All of Mr Andrew McMurray’s imported questions, contributions and motions in this mandate, newest first, including those assessed as not flagged, uncertain or not yet analysed.
Minister, I will touch on two parts of your previous answers. You referenced helping with heating bills and the cost of living through energy efficiency measures. If you could elaborate on that, that would be very good. You also mentioned a surplus of renewable energy. A lot of grassroots community organisations in my…
I rise to acknowledge that Thursday 10 September marks World Suicide Prevention Day. As a member of the all-party group (APG) on suicide prevention, I highlight the significance of the day and the importance of continuing conversations around mental health and suicide prevention. I thank Ellen Finlay from the…
I agree totally with my colleague, unsurprisingly, and that brings me, again, to a point about the PSNI. There are messages that are not subtle at all. I have mentioned the subtle messages, such as flags on lamp posts at the entrance to a housing development that has barely taken shape, but there are messages that are…
Maybe the Member should listen more closely. Not only did I give him compliments, but my colleague explained what the Bill does not set out to do. As he quite rightly said, there are people out there who do care deeply about the flag and who do give it dignity and respect. As the Member also said, he does not speak…
I thank the Member for his point, but I am still not convinced by the argument that he puts forward. However, at the same time, I always want to encourage dialogue. I look forward to dialogue with the Member, be that in the corridor, the Chamber or in the Committee room. Every party here has complained at various…
I welcome the new Chair of the Infrastructure Committee. I hope that he got the memos from the previous Chair about the collegiate nature of that Committee. I am sure that he will put that into action. I also thank Ms Bradshaw for bringing the Bill forward, and for the work that has gone on. The Chair was not in post…
Minister, is your Department undertaking any further work to ensure that my constituents and, in fact, all the people in Northern Ireland, can enjoy that precious landscape for years to come?
To ask the Minister of Finance to outline any engagement he has had with the UK Government to deliver the VAT cut to household electricity bills in Northern Ireland, as recently announced for Great Britain.
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs to outline the benefits that will arise from the establishment of the NI Government Mournes Strategic Group.
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any engagement his Department has had with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in relation to the possibility of creating two separate clinical specialties, to attract new entrants into the profession.
To ask the Minister of Health, with reference to the July 2026 Northern Ireland Audit Office report The Health Estate in Northern Ireland, to detail performance against space utilisation targets within the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust, broken down by site.
Minister, various greenway projects are mentioned in your statement. Those projects are to be welcomed. Recently, Newry, Mourne and Down District Council announced a feasibility study, part-funded by DFI, for a greenway between Warrenpoint, Kilkeel and Newcastle. Will you raise that potential project at your next…
To ask the Minister for Communities whether he will put in place a grant scheme, similar to England's Places of Worship Renewal Fund, to support the repair of historic places of worship in Northern Ireland.
To ask the Minister for the Economy to detail the indicative date for when house builders in rural areas will be able to avail of fairer grid connection costs, under her Department's new policy.
I appreciate that you are trying to make progress. I want to clarify what you said about not being aware of any breaches having been raised with the NIEA. Do you agree that, in a sense, the issue is a wider one about how we deal with our waste and about the export of our waste being the solution? I do not want to…
I will speak first in my role as the Alliance Party's infrastructure spokesperson and then as MLA for South Down. I echo what the Committee Chairperson said about the approach to the Bill. From the outset, it should be said that we support the ports. We are an island nation, and there is only one way that trade will…
To ask the Minister of Health to detail any investments in community and neighbourhood services within the South Down constituency that have been made under the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust's strategic priority Delivering Care Closer to Home.